Parallel Vienna

Clinical fatigue

September 2024
Artist Statement 
Bildrecht Young Artist Award

Clinical Fatigue is a project informed by the exhibition site of Otto Wagner Clinic which has a long and complex history. Here Sophia took an approach of an anthropological interest to draw lines between different historic events taking place at this site such as an euthanasia research of the 1940 and a forensic psychiatry department that was opened there shortly after. Clinical Fatigue exhibition contains three sculptural pieces that propose a subtle resemblance with elements of a medical furnishing where body fragments are there to appear as historical artefact of former corporeal presence. This body of work exposes the concealed horror within these walls.
Photo by Kaja Clare Joo
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